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title: Every evening an orangutan climbs high, bends branches into a spring… — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the bigge… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every evening an orangutan climbs high, bends branches into a springy platform and piles leaves on top, a bit like you making a den out of cushions, and the next night it builds a brand-new bed. Who acts: orangutan, you. A sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest fl
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# Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes, sentence 1

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Every evening an orangutan climbs high, bends branches into a springy platform and piles leaves on top, a bit like you making a den out of cushions, and the next night it builds a brand-new bed.

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**Who acts:** orangutan, you · **What happens:** climb, bend, pile, make, build · **To what, where:** branches, springy platform, leaves, top, den, cushions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orangutan, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson:1
# text = Every evening an orangutan climbs high, bends branches into a springy platform and piles leaves on top, a bit like you making a den out of cushions, and the next night it builds a brand-new bed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
4	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	high	high	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	springy	springy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	piles	pile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
22	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	amod	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | present | a orangutan |  |  |  | evening | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | present | a orangutan *not said here* | branches |  | a springy platform |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent branch=Material into platform=Product |
| 3 | **pile** | present | a orangutan *not said here* | leaves |  | top |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on top=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | you | a den |  | cushions |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Product |
| 5 | **build** | present | orangutan | a new bed |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bed=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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